04.10.2023 Dildo

“By reconfiguring the erogenous boundaries of the fucking/fucked body, the dildo calls to question the idea that the limits of the flesh coincide with the limits of the body. Pleasure always happens in a relational expanded body, constructed by social relationship, discourse, technology, and exteriority. The dildo disrupts the distinction between a feeling object and an inanimate object. By separating itself, it resists the force with which the body appropriates all the pleasure for itself, as if pleasure comes from within the body, from within the subject. The pleasure that the dildo procures belongs to the body only insofar as it is reappropriated, just because it is”tied”. The dildo raises the question of death, of simulation and dishonesty in sex. Inversely, it also forces an examination of life, truth and subjectivity in sex. The dildo that experiences pleasure knows that pleasure (all sexual pleasure) is never given or taken, never owned; that it is never really there; that it is never real; that it is always externality, incorporation and reappropriation.”

-Paul B. Preciado, Countersexual Manifesto, pg. 162-163 (emphasis mine)